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Famous Firsts

InfoPlease has a list of Famous Firsts by African-Americans. No one from Tennessee on the list but it is short list. There are so many firsts here! Tennessee’s own Wilma Rudolph for one – but not only was she the first black woman to win three medals during track & field at a singe Olympics, but she as the first woman from the United States to do so. Go Wilma!